"The fact of the matter is that the EMR [electronic medical record] remains in the United States a tool for maximization of reimbursement and as such is not a technological destination but rather a technological dead end. The driver for proliferation of this ‘dead end’ is the government being willing to fund its expansion with their fervent hope that it will be their magic bullet for finding the cheats and cheaters of Medicare….

"The reality is the train has left, those of us addicted to patient care watch in dismayed horror as our productivity plunges and we struggle to restructure not our work-flows but our clinical thought processes to badly designed, logically flawed, and obscenely overpriced documentation tools that distract the expert clinician from a high quality clinical encounter...."

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Capitalism has failed 90% or more [and growing] of the population. For profit FIRE sector, Medicine, Energy, mass communications and mass transportation are the most onerous aspects of the parasitic disease. The cancer of capitalism must be removed.

That sounds like failure as a means of survival, ie an economy, to me. A system that works well for ten percent or less of the population isn't merely a failure. It's a disaster and a threat to the survival of even the parasites who operate the pyramid scam. Slavery will not end well for anyone.

A system that works well for ten percent or less of the population isn't merely a failure. It's a disaster and a threat to the survival of even the parasites who operate the pyramid scam. Slavery will not end well for anyone.

See? That is a sane observation. So how many mentally ill do we have in positions of influence and power that are forwarding the insanity?

There are better ways to do things which would leave no1 on the street dying of starvation and lack of health care.